BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Bassist, Producer, USA
Known For: A member of the MC5.
Instruments: Bass
Music Styles: Rock
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 5th June 1943
Location Born: Detroit, Illinois, United States of America
Date Died: 17th February 2012
Location Died: Chico, California, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Michael Davis
An American bass guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer, best known as a member of the MC5.
Davis became the bassist for Detroit’s radical proto-punk band the MC5 in 1964, replacing original bassist Pat Burrows when singer Rob Tyner and guitarist Wayne Kramer decided that they liked Davis’s style and wanted him in the band.
After dropping out of the fine arts program at Wayne State University, Davis became the bassist for the MC5 in 1964, replacing original bassist Pat Burrows when singer Rob Tyner and guitarist Wayne Kramer decided that they liked Davis’s style and wanted him in the band. He played on the band’s three original albums, including their debut Kick Out the Jams, and remained in the group until 1972. Sometime in the mid-1970s, Davis spent time in Kentucky’s Lexington Federal Prison on a drug charge, where he was unexpectedly reunited with Wayne Kramer.
He played on the band’s three original albums, including their debut Kick Out the Jams, and remained in the the group until 1972.
He joined the Ann Arbor based art noise band Destroy All Monsters.
After the demise of the MC5, Davis moved to Arizona, where he played in Blood Orange.
Davis has produced and performed as a special guest on The Mother’s Anger’s self titled debut album (Dionysus Records).
On February 17, 2012, Davis died of liver failure at the age of 68.